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EXCLUSIVE: Alongside prepping to shoot his next feature, veteran filmmaker Abel Ferrara is working on a book, he tells Deadline. Entitled Scene, Ferrara doesn't categorize it exactly as a memoir, saying, "I'm trying to focus it more on the people that I've met and all the crazy sh*t in this business and…

Italian directer and writer Mitzi Peirone's Taormina Film Festival opener Saint Clare employs a number of cues from the story of Joan of Arc, the 15th century warrior and martyr who believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. Saint Clare is set in…

The Taormina Film Festival kicked off this weekend with the world premiere screening of Mitzi Peirone's Saint Clare, starring Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay and Ryan Phillippe. Introducing the movie in the hilltop Sicilian town's open-air Teatro Antico, Thorne thanked attendees for supporting…

Italy's Taormina Film Festival will honor Sharon Stone with a Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement at is upcoming 70th edition this month. The actress will follow in the footsteps of previous honorees Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Richard Gere, Colin…

Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne will open this year’s Taormina Film Festival. The July fest has unveiled gala lineup, including action title Twisters directed by Lee Isaac Chung starring Daisy Edgar-Jones; psychological thriller The Surfer by Lorcan Finnegan starring Nicolas Cage and Il giudice ed i…

Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne and Ryan Phillippe will open Italy's Taormina Film Festival.  The film is described as a "thriller" and is based on Don Roff’s novel Clare at Sixteen. Set in a small town, the story follows a solitary young woman who is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate…

Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters sequel will receive its Italian premiere at this year's Taormina Film Festival, which takes place July 12 to July 19 in southern Italy.  Twisters will screen at the festival's historic Teatro Antico amphitheater. This year's event will mark the festival's 70th edition. The…

Former Venice Film Festival head Marco Müller has been named Artistic Director of Italy's Taormina Film Fest.  The announcement was made today by the special commissioner of the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation/ Fondazione Taormina Arte Sicilia, Sergio Bonomo, who said: “Maestro Müller’s professional…

The 69th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily drew starpower that included Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Amber Heard from In the Fire, Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego from The Absence of Eden, and honored guests like John Landis, Willem Dafoe…

EXCLUSIVE: Italian-Senegalese social media personality Khaby Lame is the world's most followed TikToker, with 161.3 million followers. This puts him way ahead of U.S. influencers Charli D'Amelio and Bella Poarch who are currently in second and third position with 151 million and 92.6 million…

EXCLUSIVE: While Zoe Saldana has starred in recent blockbusters Avatar: The Way Of Water, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and makes her TV series debut this month in the Taylor Sheridan created series Special Ops: Lioness, nothing is closer to her heart than The Absence of Eden, which marks the feature…

As Indiana Jones and the Dial Of Destiny hits cinemas with Harrison Ford on his last tour of duty in the role of its titular whip-cracking protagonist, fans around the world have been turning up to screenings dressed in the character’s trademark fedora and leather jacket. Talking to Deadline at the…